I'm quite new to sabayon and this is my first encounter with emerge in this distro. My intention was to install kicad, so I chose the overlay gentoo-hacking with layman, ran an emerge --sync and --pretend and installed all of the dependencies with rigo (as far as possible), just as the wiki suggested it. I needed to adjust some keywords and use flags , some others were masked. As someone on the IRC channel told me I just ignored the masks and started compiling with emerge sci-electronics/kicad. When arriving at kicad-doc, the build process failed with the following error:

Afterwards, someone on the IRC recommended to install flash separately, and so I did. The output of emerge -pqv now only contains the first line (about the ebuild). I googled the error and also used the forum search, but neither returned any helpful results.

Any help is much appreciated

Last edited by kiki on Sat Sep 06, 2014 19:51, edited 1 time in total.

Thank you for your reply, Fitzcarraldo! Unfortunately, "-doc" is already set for kicad and kicad-doc is installed before any other kicad. However, your reply gave me the idea to remove the language flags I don't need (everything but en) and that worked.

Your problem is that the ebuild is looking for kicad-fp-library-20140727.tar.bz2 but the repository http://downloads.mad-hacking.net/software/ does not have it. Either the ebuild is wrong or the developer of the tarball has deleted or renamed the tarball. He does have a couple of tarballs with similar names (kicad-library-20140717+5006.tar.bz2 and kicad-library-walter-20140717.tar.bz2) so you could try downloading either of them, renaming it, copying it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ and see if it works.

Substituting the package didn't work due to checksum errors, so I tried and changed the ebuild and removed the fp-library from the dependencies. Installation took some time and finished without errors, and every Kicad component starts without error.